Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

— Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

Mod post:

I lost access to this account for a while, but I managed to recover it and will go back to posting the quotes I like.

I’m reading Proust in French nowadays (among other things).

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

It was, in part, a longing--common enough among the inventors of heroes--to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved.

- Kavalier & Clay

El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que se señalarlas con el dedo.

Gabriel García Márquez - Cien años de soledad

As we will see, it did not succeed. In this way Pampa learned the lesson every creator must learn, even God himself. Once you had created your characters, you had to be bound by their choices. You were no longer free to remake them according to your own desires.

Salman Rushdie - Victory City